Course Title: Community Health Interpreting

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Community Health Interpreting

Credit Points: 12.00

Important Information:

 


Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

LANG1367

City Campus

Postgraduate

365H Global, Urban and Social Studies

Face-to-Face

 Sem 1 2020,
Sem 1 2021

Course Coordinator: Dr Miranda Lai

Course Coordinator Phone: +(61 3) 9925 3523

Course Coordinator Email: miranda.lai@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 37.5.18

Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Required Prior Study 

You should have satisfactorily completed the prerequisite courses LANG1237 Interpreting Accrediting Practice 1 and LANG1238 Interpreting Accrediting Practice 2 before you commence this course.   

Alternatively, you may be able to demonstrate the required skills and knowledge before you start this course.  Contact your course coordinator if you think you may be eligible for recognition of prior learning. 

  *Note: If you wish to pursue NAATI Certified Specialist Interpreter-Health you need to complete 2 courses included in the Health Interpreting Cluster offered by the Translating and Interpreting Program.   


Course Description

This course aims to provide you with specialist skills and knowledge in the field of healthcare services. You will develop the ability to apply relevant specialised and contextual knowledge common in primary health care settings such as general practice, community healthcare, child and maternal health, prenatal education, dental health, allied health services (nutrition, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, continence clinics, etc).   

You will further develop your interpreting skills, acquired in previous courses, in dialogue, consecutive, telephone and simultaneous (chuchotage) interpreting, and sight translation which are common modes of interpreting in healthcare settings.   

This course, part of the Health Cluster, forms the first semester of a two-semester sequence of studies aiming at the Certified Specialist Interpreter-Health level tested by National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters [NAATI]. You can access this external test after completing the degree.  

This course includes a work integrated learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/or other professionals is integral to your experience.  


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Program Learning Outcomes  

In this course you will develop the following program learning outcomes:  

  • Critically reflect on and apply abstract concepts and knowledge of languages, cultures and research methods in order to facilitate communication across cultures and languages.  
  • Use appropriate cognitive, technical and creative skills to resolve intralingual and interlingual issues to transfer the communicative intent of spoken or written discourse.  
  • Apply high level professional communication skills in multi-lingual environments.  
  • Reflect on and develop your personal practice to maintain current local and global professional standards and practices, and to extend and challenge industry knowledge.  


Course Learning Outcomes  

Upon successful completion of this course, you will develop skills in:  

         1. Interpreting in the different modes of interpreting used in community healthcare settings by gradually increasing levels of complexity.   

         2. Understanding the dynamics and complexities of community healthcare settings.  

         3. Understanding the contextual knowledge required in a range of areas of community healthcare settings.   

         4. Conducting research in a wide range of fields in order to deliver high quality interpreting services in healthcare settings.  


Overview of Learning Activities

Lectures and workshops will be devoted to:   

  • Interpreting in the different interpreting modes commonly used across a range of healthcare settings.  
  • Discussing specialised knowledge in the particular community healthcare domains.  
  • Linking interpreting exercises to the discourse analysis perspectives examined in other courses of the program.  

You will also participate in simulated healthcare communicative events and other simulated activities within the program, interdisciplinary and/or with external organisations/institutions. Other activities may include external visits to healthcare services/institutions.   

 


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems. 

The Translating & Interpreting program has developed extensive digital resources in interpreting which will be used as a basis of interpreting practice. Authentic material will also be used such as speeches in a wide range of fields (diplomacy, environment, research and development, legal and court, medical, business, etc).   

Teachers are practising interpreters who bring their own experience and examples of professional interpreting contexts and professional practice scenarios to the classroom.   

Electronic equipment such as interpreting booths will be used for interpreting practice.  

The University Library has extensive resources for interpreting students. The Library has produced a number of subject guides that includes quality online and print resources for your studies, see Library Guides.

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal. 


Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes. 

Assessment Tasks

Task 1: Interpreting portfolio 25% CLO 2, 3, 4.   

Task 2: Knowledge test 25% CLO 2,3,4 

Task 3: Simulated Specialist certification test  (consecutive) 25%, CLO 1, 2, 3, 4. 

Task 4: Simulated Specialist certification test, (simultaneous) 25%, CLO 1, 2,3,4.  

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks. 

If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more. 

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.